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Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: Diana Aiken E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Feature Annotations 3: None 4: Area 4 south of the Peasedown by-pass would best be served by Bathavon South as any proposed development in this area has future implications on the Parish of Shoscombe Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Annotation 3: None Annotation 4: Area 4 south of the Peasedown by-pass would best be served by Bathavon South as any proposed development in this area has future implications on the Parish of Shoscombe Comment text: Shoscombe Parish has always been concerned that any development south of the Peasedown by-pass would allow sprawling development that eventually could negate the rural nature of the hamlets contained in Shoscombe Parish. If this small area could be included in Bathavon South there is more likely to be sensitivity to this requirement of the local community, than if this are remained outside the ward in which Shoscombe is located. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded 9/12/2017 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: Andrew Avramenko E-mail: P ostcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: The borders between the wards of Odd Down, Bathavon West and Bathavon South needs to be amended to take account of the housing and school adjacent to the 3 borders. The border between Odd Down and Bathavon South currently goes through the site of St Gregory's School; additionally a strategically allocated site in the Core Strategy/Development Plan for Bath and North East Somerset will also cling to this border and effectively be an extension of the housing estate to the east of St Gregory's School (see http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sitedocuments/Planning-and-Building- Control/Planning-Policy/Core-Strategy/core_strategy_-_adopted_interactive_version.pdf#page=65). Both the school and the new development should be included within the Odd Down ward as they are distinctly part of that area and not Bathavon South. The hamlet of Kilkenny (Rose Cottages, Woodside Cottages and the Hermitage on Kilkenny Lane) in Bathavon West bordering the Odd Down boundary and A367 roundabout besides St Gregory's School should also be incorporated into the Odd Down ward. Not only is in effect an extension of the Odd Down community but the border creates a problems with service delivery, in particular with policing as due to it's inclusion in Bathavon West emergency calls are directed to Radstock and not Bath, causing significant delays in response times. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/10394 1/1 8/1/2017 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: John Branston E-mail: P ostcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: The one comment I would make is in respect of the local shopping street Moorland Road, which is currently split between Westmoreland and Oldfield wards. As an entity, it might be easier to manage it if it were entirely in one or the other ward. I don't have any views on which ward it should be in. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/10055 1/1 7/26/2017 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: Andrew Brown E-mail: P ostcode: Organisation Name: Feature Annotations 33:: TThishis iiss WWestoneston Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Annotation 3: This is Weston Comment text: The area I have highlighted includes properties close to the centre of Weston Village, and I would have thought consider themselves to be part of the Weston community rather than the expansive Bathavon North. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/10012 1/1 10/2/2017 Local Government Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: Ian Cannock E-mail: P ostcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: I am very keen that village communities should be kept together as currently the case in Bathavon South as they often have common issues and can approach a councillor who is familiar with such issues. They should not be merged with and subsumed into larger town wards, that maybe geographically close such as Radstock or Peasedown St John, but with which have little in common in terms of issues. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/10554 1/1 9/18/2017 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: David Chalk E-mail: P ostcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: We believe that the properties at Fosseway cottages, Welton Road and Wells Road(between Welton Road and Radstock Town Centre) should be included in Radstock Ward not Westfield Ward. The reason for this view is that these areas, both geographically and economically relate to the former rather than the latter. People from these areas shop in and walk to Radstock community facilities rather than those in Westfield. The new Ward boundary could be easily redrawn from the existing one near the centre of Radstock to the new one at the top of Welton Road. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/10436 1/1 9/11/2017 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: Margaret Coach E-mail: P ostcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: What has happened to Bathwick? Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/10385 1/1 8/2/2017 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Bath and North East Somerset Personal Details: Name: David Dixon E-mail: P ostcode: Organisation Name: N/A Comment text: Please do something about the ridiculous situation of the Westfield and Radstock wards. Half of Radstock Town centre is in the Westfield ward. This makes no sense to the general public at large and is actually just completely confusing to an awful lot of residents who live there. Can we also do something about the Westmoreland Ward? I have lived and worked in Bath and the surrounding area for 30 years and I couldn't tell you where the Ward starts and finishes. I would be very surprised if any-one in that area realised what ward they were in. They just identify with it being Oldfield Park so perhaps amalgamate the Oldfield and Westmoreland wards together. This may result in an additional Councillor for that area as the population there is very high density due to the abundance of HMO's with students from the two Universities. This will be part of the problem with proposed changes for Bath where a population of about 88,000 is made up of 24,000 students who tend to be congregated in areas such as Oldfield Park and along the Lower Bristol Road The Widcombe ward is too disjointed and people to the west of the ward do not identify with being in Widcombe. The Kingsmead Ward covers too large an area and goes all the way up to Chelsea Road which would be regarded as either Weston or Newbridge wards. The Bathavon North, South and West wards just cover what was the old Bathavon Rural District Council area which was in essence the "doughnut" around Bath. There may be some scope in merging some of the Parishes in those wards on the periphery of the old Bath City boundary with wards just inside. There is potential for this in areas such as Monkton Combe, with the Parish becoming part of the Combe Down ward. This is made easier due to the fact that there are no Parishes within the old Bath city boundary to worry about. If you look to the south of the district then there is an argument for parishes such as Camerton and Shoscombe being merged with the Peasedown St John ward which would also make sense. You could also argue that the two Midsomer Norton Wards could be merged with three Councillors to cover a single ward rather than having four Councillors over two wards where perhaps the population of the town does not justify it. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/10064 1/1 20 September 2017 The Review Officer (Bath and North East Somerset) Local Government Boundary Commission for England Millbank Tower 21-24 Millbank London SW1P4QP Dear Sir, ELECTORAL REVIEW OF BATH ANO NORTH EAST SOMERSET: WARDING ARRANGEMENTS I am writing, as an elector residing in the parish of Freshford, with the following comments on the current consultation for future warding arrangements for the election of councillors to Bath and North East Somerset Council:- l)the Commission should reject any proposals to increase the recommended number of councillors from fiftynine (a reduction of six councillors from the existing arrangements) -l would support a lower total number of councillors as the number of electors per councillor is lower than many other unitary authorities (the adjoining unitaryauthority of Wiltshire, with much lower population densities, has an average electorate of over one thousand, four hundred electors per councillor greater than the proposals for Bath and North East Somerset) ii) the parishof Freshford should continue to be in an electoral ward represented by a single councillor- any proposals that